Automatically skip or merge duplicates when importing another library?

t.hrynick

Someone has sent me a RIS file of a reference library that I would like to add to one of my own collections. However, there is a considerable number of references in it which are already in my collection. Is there a way of asking Zotero to avoid importing the duplicates or do I need to import them all and then dedupe each pair one by one as normal?

If I can't avoid importing the ones I already have, is there yet a function in Zotero which allows you to merge all duplicate items without having to consider each pair (or triplet in some cases) individually?

Thanks.

adamsmith

Unfortunately no on both questions. (I think there may be a scripting solution in an existing thread for the second option, but not sure)

a.abdul-rahman

I do wish Zotero would solve this. Or to allow duplicate identification by collection.

bwiernik

@a.abdul-rahman For your systematic review, you should create a new Group library that is entirely separate from any other libraries.